Electronic Design

Eye Diagrams, Bathtub Curves, And Bit-Error Rates

On an oscilloscope's eye-pattern diagram, the distance between peak deterministic and random jitter amplitudes (the unit interval, or UI) is often called a "bathtub," which functions as a ...
EDN

Handheld analyzer displays eye patterns

Anritsu Company Introduces First Handheld Solution for Eye Pattern Analysis of OC-192/STM-64, 10G Fibre Channel, and 10G Ethernet Bit Master MP1026A is Low-cost Instrument for 10 Gbps Mask Compliance ...
EDN

Debug CAN/CAN FD buses with an oscilloscope

Since its emergence in the late 1980s as a burgeoning serial-data protocol for the automotive market, the controller area network (CAN) bus has been the go-to networking standard for vehicles ...
Electronic Design

Eye-Diagram Analysis Speeds DDR SDRAM Validation

Double-data-rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDR SDRAM) physical-layer testing is a crucial step in making sure devices comply with the JEDEC specification. The ultimate goal is to ...